Just finished "Coffee: A Dark History" by Antony Wild.

I’m not sure of his intentions; criticism of colonialism or anti slavery but this book had more off ramps than the interstate.

I really don’t care how many cups of coffee Napoleon drank in a day and worst that it took 3 pages to tell the tale.

I enjoyed the chapter on Vietnam and how coffee exploits the economy, ecology, and indigenous peoples.

Spoiler alert! The product of coffee always has depended on cheap labor and that has taken many forms: slavery, ruined economy and colonialism.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/6547738-coffee

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Hubris

There are two trillion galaxies in the universe, and a 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way. 
Will ours be missed when it burns out?

There are 20 Septillion drops of water in  the oceans.

What is one more tear?

There are  15 trillion  cells in the human body and as many as 100 billion cells die in each adult each day.

Do you notice the passing of one?

Every day, up to 150 species are lost, about one species per every one million species per year.

Where are the other eight now-extinct species of human?

There are 8 billion people on the planet.

Will there be anyone left to mourn?